Thursday, October 31

Forever never seemed so long...

Everyone else is having a crisis, so why can't I? Let's call this one "Where the hell did my life go?" So I'm a mother and a wife. There are two ways to look at this. Without demeaning the first, the second is to not that it says very little about me as a person to me known only as a wife and mother. I feel like I'm still paying for the mistake that I made 7 years ago, and I'm going to pay for it forever. Oh, I have every intention of going back to school and somehow making it work, but right now it doesn't feel like my goals for the next 5 to 10 years are very close. I love my son, and I love my husband, but somedays I can't help feeling that because of them there is no me left. Anyone could step in and do what I do. It's not like I'm bringing a unique approach to how the laundry gets done. I feel like I've just been hollowed out, and I have no one who understands. If you're not in or have lived through my position, then please don't try and tell me you do understand, because you don't. While it may be similar, I'm not sure you could grasp the particular scenario I'm living out. I want to have worth as an individual, not from the roles I fill in my daily life. I want to be able to still be something if you stripped the wife and mother bit away. I wonder if this is how women 50 years ago felt? I wouldn't be surprised...but they had society's standards to go by. I have no excuse.
I want a do-over.

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